the fact that george w. bush nominated a democrat for the job sort of gave me a level of credibility that i was not, you know, some sort of partisan guy, a political guy, but i was just a prosecutor. look, i wouldn't have got through the senate. it was helpful for them to see me as a democrat, it was not sort of -- i was not a political clamp, but just a federal prosecutor. when i got there, i, you know, once the administration's turned over under the obama administration, there was a great deal of frustration with me. i think i was viewed as a turncoat, a traitor for being critical of the obama administration as a democrat, and, you know, so much of washington is politics, but one of my favorite rumors they spread was that i was actually going to switch parties and become a republican and run for office as a republican, and this is one of their, you know, one of the rumors that the press said, hey, we heard this from treasury. is it true? of course, it was not true. having a job like that, you know, your jo